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... Most notable was his intention to extract 10,000 soldiers this year and 23,000 more by next summer, before the height of Afghanistan's ... and innovation remains to be seen. Re: This Week at War: End of the COIN Era? My first thought on the number was: Is ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... We, as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... enemy would use torture at the slightest whim. If this is the case, then waterboarding is unquestionably being used as torture ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... next door While answering a question on Mexico this week at the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary ...

Blog entry - Sep 10 2010 - 6:42pm - 32 comments - 0 attachments

... of the post-modern and highly abstract concepts offered in this article help generate some discourse, creative or critical thinking, then ... out and Outlaw- sorry, been out and about this week and not near a computer. Give me a bit to re-engage and I will read ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... , namely "repetitive raiding." Finel explains his proposal this way: [T]he vast majority of goals can be accomplished through ... wars to bring about this improvement. Re: This Week at War: Does the Pottery Barn Rule Still Apply? Rob's assessment is ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 5:03pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... country's purchase of the U.S.-built Joint Strike Fighter. This outcome is no doubt highly pleasing to the Pentagon. Getting the axe will ... doing any of its own deep bone-cutting. Re: This Week at War: The Biden Plan Returns Saying that an increase in kinetic ops ...

Blog entry - Oct 22 2010 - 6:22pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments

... Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario for resolution of the Afghan conflict in a ... been other times when I agreed with their judgment (last week there was an angry, personal attack against Bob Cassidy and they removed ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... Needless to say, the deployments of U.S. military force this decade have obeyed precious few of these guidelines. Powell wrote his ... their options will watch and learn. Re: This Week at War: The Long Death of the Powell Doctrine With the radical ...

Blog entry - Mar 5 2010 - 4:48pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... to wrest a strategic area from insurgent forces, in this case the Taliban, and win the "hearts and minds" of the local people. In a ... failure. Captain Kendall's paper published earlier this week in SWJ on Ghazni or Captain James Few's case study of Zaganiyah in 2008 ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... deterrence against the North. China's handling of this affair will end up costing it and brings Beijing's judgment into question. ... gets to choose how history plays out. Re: This Week at War: China's Foolish Fight Over the Yellow Sea I would tend ...

Blog entry - Jul 23 2010 - 8:22pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments